Sumerpur is a place where HUL’s large manufacturing site and a living town meet every day. For HUL, it has always been more than a production footprint. It is a setting where jobs, dignity, health and opportunity are built alongside lines and warehouses.
Growth that strengthens a town
Inside the gates, our 72-acre Sumerpur factory site has become one of our most important manufacturing hubs. With a capacity of 600 K tonnes per annum across fabric wash, household care, and personal care, the site is designed for scale. It includes four units, a spray-dried powder plant, and a fully automated distribution centre that can move 1,500 tonnes a day. The factory workforce of 914 reflects our commitment to inclusion, with women making up 43% overall and nearly 70% of new hires, alongside colleagues with disabilities across three shifts.
A story guided by Prabhat
But Sumerpur’s story is not only about production. Around the site, our Prabhat community development initiatives have helped the town grow stronger too. More than 7,600 people have been trained in new skills, over 9,400 farmers supported in dairy and agriculture, and close to 3,87,000 women and children reached through nutrition programmes. Water stewardship initiatives have helped conserve 34.68 billion litres, and mobile health units have extended care to 17,000 people.
Waste is collected at a household level, segregated, and either recycled or upcycled into compost, pavers, and bricks. These interventions show how the presence of a factory can become the foundation for thriving communities, with livelihoods, health, and resilience growing in tandem with industrial capacity.
Water conservation structure
Mobile medical van
Community waste segregation
Care beyond the gates
Our Prabhat Suvidha Kendra (PSK) sits by NH-19 for a reason: the highway carries the workers who move goods, yet offers few safe places to rest, wash, or refill water. The PSK answers that gap with clean, inclusive WASH facilities managed by HUL to consistent standards of hygiene and safety. It houses 21 sanitation units with separate areas for men and women, seven bathing units, four laundry machines, an RO water unit, and regular health camps.
The centre is designed for truckers and other travellers and is operated with the support of implementation partner Adarsh Seva Samiti. The intent is practical and human, which is to give a mobile workforce access to basics that directly affect health, time, morale, and income.
A shared prosperous future
Sumerpur today is a microcosm of what HUL stands for. It is where industry and community advance side by side. A similar story is unfolding in communities around many of our sites, where local progress and industrial growth reinforce one another. This is what Prabhat was designed to achieve: a framework that ensures growth is shared, impact is lasting, and communities around HUL factories can move forward with confidence and strength.